SCALES 1st General Meeting - Superfluid Condensates in Astrophysics and Laboratory Experiments

Session

2nd morning session

22 Jun 2026, 11:10

Physics Department, University of Coimbra

Conveners

2nd morning session

• Elena Poli (Pitaevskii BEC Center, CNR-INO, Trento, Italy)

26. Structure and Dynamics of Pairing Field in Inhomogeneous Fermi Superfluids

Bugra Tuzemen (IFPAN)

22/06/2026, 11:10

Talk

Spin imbalance in ultracold Fermi gases gives rise to a rich variety of structures rooted in the competition between pairing and polarization. I will present a survey of our recent results, starting from the static phase diagram where disordered configurations compete energetically with Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrell (LOFF)-type ordered states across a wide range of polarizations. I will...

10. Bouquets of Topological Defects and Pinning in Neutron Stars

Marco ANTONELLI (CNRS - LPC Caen)

22/06/2026, 12:00

Talk

Quantised vortices and magnetic flux tubes are expected to govern key aspects of neutron star dynamics, but their bulk behaviour is difficult to isolate numerically due to boundary effects in finite domains. Despite an unavoidable topological obstruction, it is possible to study topological defects in periodic domains by relaxing the requirement of periodicity for the condensate's phase....

25. Reassessing pulsar braking indices: A vortex line–flux tube interaction model

erbil gügercinoğlu (Sabancı University)

22/06/2026, 12:25

Talk

An extended superfluid vortex line–magnetic flux tube interaction model is proposed for the magneto-thermal-rotational evolution of neutron stars. Applications to a sample of 12 radio pulsars with reliably measured braking indices demonstrate significantly improved agreement compared to the preexisting models. The effective moment of inertia change term for glitching pulsars is derived from...